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An elderly Nepalese ex-Gurkha soldiers waits to welcome British Actress Joanna Lumley during her first visit in Nepal at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. 26 July 2009. Thousands of the soldiers and their families gathered at International Airport to greet the 63-year-old star of TV show “Absolutely Fabulous”, who spearheaded a campaign for the British army veterans to be allowed to settle in Britain. Joanna arrives here in Kathmandu today for 6 days visit where she scheduled to meet President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and ex.Gurkha vetran soldiers.

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Lumley’s tears at brave Gurkha tribute in Nepal

Joanna Lumley wiped away a tear yesterday during an emotional meeting with the Gurkha veterans she campaigned so hard for.

The star wept after a wizened former soldier, stoop-shouldered and puffing for breath, painfully edged his way on to a stage.

Harka Bahadur Pun had walked for six hours from his hill-top village outside Kathmandu in Nepal to shake Joanna’s hand.
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KATHMANDU, July 15 – Nepal Police has detained 15 Tibetan exiles when they were preparing to stage anti-China protests outside the United Nations (UN) building at Pulchowk on Tuesday afternoon. The Tibetans were apprehended after they tried to throng the UN office, said Superintendent of Police Kedar Man Singh Bhandari, chief of Metropolitan Police Range, Lalitpur. In the process of doing so, they blocked a street causing traffic bottleneck, said Bhandari.

The police had to step in and disperse the rally after demonstrators shouted anti-China slogans and reiterated demands for a free and independent Tibet. The detainees were to be released after being questioned, but till late evening, they were not released. The Nepal government has repeatedly said that Tibet is an inalienable part of China, and that it will not allow any anti-China activities on its territory.

The march was the latest in a series of protests by the Tibetans in the country since anti-Chinese demonstrations began in Tibet in mid-March, which marked the anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in 1959 after which the Dalai Lama fled to India.

According to an estimate, more than 30,000 exiled Tibetans live in Nepal.
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KATHMANDU (AFP) – Nepal’s anti-corruption authority has come up with a novel solution to rampant bribe-taking at the country’s only international airport — the pocketless trouser. The authority said it was issuing the new, bribe-proof garment to all airport officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport. “We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true,” said Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). “So we decided that airport officials should be given trousers with no pockets. We have directed the ministry of civil aviation to implement our order as soon as possible,” he told AFP. “We believe this will help curb the irregularities.” Paudyal said CIAA investigators had observed theft as well as bribe-taking by airport officials, who would lose their jobs if the situation did not improve. His comments came a day after Nepal’s new Prime Minister Madhav Mumar Nepal expressed fears that corruption was tarnishing the airport’s reputation. Nepal’s tourism industry employs around 300,000 people in one of the world’s poorest countries. The landlocked Himalayan nation attracted a record 550,000 foreign visitors in 2008, two years after a peace deal that ended the decade-long Maoist insurgency. It has set an ambitious goal of attracting one million tourists a year by 2011.

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